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WAKE UP, GOP, AND QUIT OSTRACIZING TODD AKIN

speedoSanta Wrote: Aug 24, 2012 2:13 PM

What do the people who want Akin to resign think is going to happen if he does? You know the media is going besiege his replacement and probably goad him or her into a denunciation of Akin, thus totally alienating his numerous--and now fervent--followers, probably wounding them to the point of keeping them away from the polls, in which case Obama and McCaskill win Missouri. The flip side is different: if he stays in, who of Akin's Republican critics is going to sit it out or vote out of spite for Obama and McCaskill, especially when Akin is a guaranteed vote to repeal Obamacare?

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WAKE UP, GOP, AND QUIT OSTRACIZING TODD AKIN

Prediction: If the GOP establishment doesn't follow Republican Rep. Todd Akin's example with a big, fat apology -- to Akin -- the whole party goes down in flames come November.

I don't mean every Republican will lose, but there is great political peril in not sealing the hole in Republican armor that has opened in Missouri and instead permitting it to remain a Democratic pressure point. Further, "for the good of the country" (the mantra accompanying the partywide chorus of pleas to Akin to drop out of his U.S. Senate race), Republicans must resume funding Akin's viable campaign ASAP, after cutting it...

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